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Peruvian singer, songwriter and musicologist

Nicomedes Santa Cruz
Nicomedes Santa Cruz singing.
Born	()June 4, La Victoria, Lima Province, Peru
Died	February 5, () (aged&#;66) Madrid, Spain
Occupation(s)	Poet, composer, journalist, folklorist

Nicomedes Santa Cruz Gamarra (June 4, – February 5, ) was a Peruvian singer, songwriter and musicologist.

He was primarily a decimista (or decimero), a singer of décimas. He researched most forms of Afro-Peruvian music and dance, becoming the leading ethnomusicologist in Peru.

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Biography

Santa Cruz was born in La Victoria District, Lima, Peru, to Nicomedes Santa Cruz Aparicio and Victoria Gamarra Ramírez, and was the ninth of ten siblings. After his schooling, it was decided that he would work as a blacksmith, which he did until when he left his workshop and traveled throughout Peru and Latin America, composing and reciting his poems.

In , he met Don Porfirio Vasquez (father of